Monday June 17 News Updates Lakewood

Weather: 87° Sun and clouds mixed. High 87F 

heat advisory for tomorrow From Tue 10:00 am until Wed 6:00 am For the Heat Advisory, heat index values up to 96 expected. For the Excessive Heat Watch, dangerously hot conditions with heat index values up to 105 possible.

- A dangerously hot and humid week is ahead in New Jersey with high temperatures reaching the 90s from Tuesday through Saturday, with the potential for 100-degree heat in the later part of the week.

- At the supreme court: The only time Chief Justice Roberts has ordered fences to be put up around the Supreme Court was last year when it was leaked that Roe would be overturned.

Fences just went up again today. Something big is coming.

- George E. Norcross III, one of the most powerful political insiders in New Jersey history, was indicted today on racketeering charges. George E. Norcross III, a formidable and long-feared Democratic powerbroker whose influence stretched across the state, was criminally indicted Monday on wide-ranging corruption charges in a scheme that enabled him to illegally land millions in lucrative real estate deals in the state’s poorest city Camden.

- Lakewood mayor Ray Coles in a interview with Israeli maariv Newspaper 

"I have been working for 8 years, and I always have Jews in the council," said Coles. "The work of the [Lakewood] ultra-Orthodox society in the city is amazing. They help guard the community and have an organization that assists when someone is locked out of their home, if someone has problems with their car, and the like. They even helped me and my children when we were locked out of the house. I really want to visit Israel, but only if there is something meaningful I can do there that will benefit our community."

- Traffic signal on Central Ave Lakewood New Egypt Gudz and Whiteville intersection will go live tomorrow 

- Bde: Petirah of R’ Shloima Yehudah Miller Z”L of Lakewood  Levaya 2 pm at the Bais Olam Shiva at 10 Central Ave

- How many were there at Adirei Hatorah event in Wells Fargo? Israeli media outlets report 35,000 Frumnews has the number at 25k and Kol Haolam says 21,000

- Rav Tzvi Kushelevsky shlita spoke this morning at Kollel boker Ohr Shmuel in Lutzk B"M he will speak tomorrow evening in Lakewood for all girls in shidduchim age at the high school as part of the Nshei Adirei hatorah initiative.

- Farher season for bais medrash age bochurim begins this week

- Zoning board meeting tonight watch livestream Here 

see agenda here  

on the agenda a new 2 story Mikva for Satmar B"M ot E Kennedy and county Line

Yeshiva Gedola of Brick 420 Cross School building with dormitory.

 Squankum Road, Block 169 Lot 21, B-4 zone. To subdivide into one duplex and 3 townhouses, (triplex)

- Rav Elya Ber Wachtfogel shlita said a story yesterday in a video message at the Adirei Hatorah event how during the Yom Kippur war the Skolya rebbe got up early in the morning and told his Hoiz Bachur that he had a remarkable dream that the yishuv in Eretz Yisrael was in imminent danger of getting anihalated this was a few hours before war broke out. He saw in the dream a globe of the world  with all the frum communities where yidden lived from europe to the US when in came to Lakewood he said in the zechus of Torah Mitoch Hadchak that the youngeleit are learning in Lakevood that has saved the yishuv in Eretz Yisrael 

- Adirei Hatorah  Rav Ephraim Wachsman asked that the olam accept upon themselves  not to get too excited about things related to Gashmiyus 

 In a special message to the Bochorim he said thise who are struggling living in a world full of nisyonos  to keep on shteiging and withstand the nisyonos not to give up, the struggle he said is part of the kedusha.

- Adirei Hatorah: The Rosh Hayeshiva Rav Malkiel Kotler shlita was mechabed the Machzikei Adirei Hatorah by visiting some of the suits

 - In a landmark 4-3 ruling, the New Jersey Supreme Court has just upended decades-long standing case law, establishing that all commercial landowners - even of vacant lots - have a duty to maintain public sidewalks and are liable to pedestrians who are injured as a result of their negligent failure to do so. Faa

- Chuck Schumer deleted a post on Twitter with photo of  uncooked cheeseburger on the grill. after he was roasted on social media for pretending to know how to BBQ like the average joe the meat looked like it is spoiled, as a Jew he was called out for cooking cheese and meat together.

- Conservative radio talk show host Bill Spadea today announced that he would seek the Republican nomination for Governor of New Jersey in 2025 with a pledge to make the state more affordable, stop indoctrinating kids at school, and prevent Joe Biden from sending those living in the U.S. illegally to New Jersey.

“I’m unapologetically conservative, pro-life, pro-Second Amendment, and pro-Trump,” Spadea said.  “I’m running for governor to fight for you. I’m ready, willing, and able to lead with strength, conviction, and courage to restore common sense to our great state.”